(Le Mars) — On this day when we offer our thanks for the bountiful feast, the volunteers of the Community Thanksgiving held at the Rejoice Community Church has prepared enough meals to serve 600 people. Adri Ruisch is the coordinator for the Community Thanksgiving event. She says this is the 12th year when the church has prepared a community meal. Ruisch offers some of the statistics involved with preparing meals for 600 people.
Ruisch says nearly half of the meals go out for delivery.
What’s a Thanksgiving meal without pie? Ruisch says more than 100 pies were prepared for the Community Thanksgiving meal.
As mentioned, this marks the 12th year for the event, and Ruisch says people are amazed at how it has developed over the years.
The Community Thanksgiving began at 11:00 a.m and continues until 1:00 p.m.
State Proposes To Freeze Budget For Municipal Employees
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa has proposed no wage increases and removed health insurance provisions in a contract with the state’s largest public employees union.
The contract released Wednesday by the Iowa Department of Administrative Services to the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Iowa Council 61 adds language that would give the state more control in
determining health benefits.
Danny Homan, Iowa Council 61 president, says the state is “shortchanging” public employees in anticipation of legislation next year that could change Iowa’s collective bargaining laws. Republicans will control both the House and Senate in January.
Ben Hammes, a spokesman for Gov. Terry Branstad, says the Republican governor wants to provide health care that’s more “financially sustainable.”
Iowa Council 61 represents 40,000 public employees including correctional officers, firefighters and mental health workers.
Fort Dodge Man Sentenced For 25 Years For Death Of Elderly Man
WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) – A Fort Dodge resident has been given 25 years in prison for the crash death of another resident.
46-year-old Leon Shivers was sentenced Monday. He’d been convicted Nov. 2 of vehicular homicide while driving drunk.
Police say he caused the death of 82-year-old John McCartney, who died at a hospice nearly three weeks after the April 22 collision. Police said Shivers ran a stop sign, was driving 72 mph on a city street, and his blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit to drive. Shivers told investigators he was
in the back seat, but witnesses and DNA evidence showed he was driving when his vehicle struck the one carrying McCartney.
Shivers apologized to McCartney’s family in court Monday.
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